Stop with the freking risk/reward. If you are not willing to do sh*t about it, then it's your own fault. My sniper suits costed 130k isk in 1.6 and were easily killable by a standard tactical sniper. Get good you scurbs and stop tying to keep a sh*tty weapon in the dirt. The only viable sniper right now is the thale's.


Snipers are an unliked class but you deserve to be sniped if you don't want to counter them.
I kill 90% of sniper I face with level 2 in sniper operation, a scout suit and a tactical sniper rifle and I best most lose over 100k isk per death when I start sniping.



They all need a zoom and damage buff.
Tactical needs it's clip size increased.
Charge needs a cooler word in front of the name, a damage buff and a huge zoom capability buff.
Basic needs a damage buff.

Remove the redline and I'll talk.

Here's the difference, and what you fail to understand simpleton.

Militia Sniper Rifle vs. Militia Drop Suit (MINIMUM 2 body shots for a kill / 1 head shot for a kill)

Prototype Sniper Rifle vs. Prototype Drop Suit (MINIMUM 3 body shots for a kill / 1-2 head shots for a kill)

*excluding heavies*

In their own tier.. Militia Sniper Rifle > Prototype

Balancing the Sniper Rifle might increase the percentage of one hit kills of a prototype sniper vs maybe a standard/militia drop suit. That's not what matters at all though. They're prepared to die a lot. A cheap suit provides low risk of isk loss, so death is their reward.The people running those suits generally don't matter to the out come of a match. Anyone with a combat rifle / rail rifle with a prototype drop suit could attest. They serve one purpose and that's to increase that little number next to your deaths at the end of a match. It's not even generally required that you aim to kill these people. (the miracle of hip fire)

Headshot an OHK? Yeah, right! Besides, you talk like every shot is a headshot. Headshots are very difficult, because of bad rendering, moving targets (no problem with that!) and false 'red reticules'.

bricked tanks gal heavies take 4 headshots from charged rifle thanks to their high hp and resitances, and that's assuming they don't have a logi repper in which case you may as well add the amount of shots it takes to kill the logi first assuming i can they tend to have just as much hp.

Nah, that's 563 eHP damage. Excluding the -10% penalty vs. armour. That's hardly almost anything.

You can't just compare kills results to mostly scouts, especially as they have other things going for them (cloaks, high speed, smaller hitbox, harder to spot). Look at the results: the charge time and extremely low zoom make it much harder for a Charge to hit. Nothing wrong with it, but it's certainly not OP.